[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5278 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5278

 To make daylight savings time permanent for the State of Florida, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2018

   Mr. Buchanan (for himself, Mr. Yoho, and Mr. Soto) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make daylight savings time permanent for the State of Florida, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sunshine State Act''.

SEC. 2. MAKING DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME PERMANENT FOR THE STATE OF 
              FLORIDA.

    Section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Permanent Advancement of Time for the State of Florida.--
            ``(1) In general.--The standard time of the State of 
        Florida shall be Coordinated Universal Time (as defined in 
        section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918 (commonly known as the 
        `Calder Act') (15 U.S.C. 261)) retarded by 4 hours.
            ``(2) Inapplicability of temporary advancement.--Subsection 
        (a) shall not apply to the State of Florida.''.
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